Recaps

Lynn, Tony, Banner, and Ivan agreed to help S.H.I.E.L.D. fight the alien threat without joining or taking its orders, then traveled to the Helicarrier. Lynn discovered that Steve Rogers was there and confronted Coulson for not warning him.

• Tony, Banner, and Ivan agreed with Lynn that they would cooperate with S.H.I.E.L.D. but keep control of their own tactics and equipment.
• Lynn called Coulson and confirmed their terms, which Director Fury accepted, while Ivan went to prepare additional equipment.
• The group boarded a S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet and arrived at the Helicarrier.
• Coulson introduced Tony, Ivan, Banner, and Lynn to Steve Rogers, who asked Banner about finding the Tesseract.
• Lynn pulled Coulson aside and accused him of springing Rogers’s presence on them without warning.

Tony criticized Fury for withholding information and proposed using Stark Industries satellites to locate the Tesseract faster. He returned to Stark Tower with Lynn, while Banner and Ivan stayed on the Helicarrier to assist with the search and Ivan’s arc generator.

• Rogers paid Fury ten dollars, and Fury briefed the group on recovering the Tesseract.
• Coulson explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. was scanning network-connected devices, while Natasha said the search was too slow and asked for help narrowing the area.
• Lynn approached Natasha and again offered her a paid position as his butler, but she ignored him.
• Tony revealed that Stark Industries satellites were already equipped to track gamma rays and said he would use them to search for the Tesseract.
• Tony assigned Banner and Ivan to work aboard the Helicarrier, then opened a portal and left for Stark Tower with Lynn.

Tony and Lynn searched for the Tesseract while agreeing not to disrupt the expected course of events. When Fury reported that Loki was in Stuttgart, Lynn chose to stay behind and let Tony join Captain America and Natasha.

• Banner asked to join the workshop and dragged Ivan Vanko along with him.
• Tony ordered JARVIS to scan the globe for the Tesseract’s gamma-ray signature, but repeated scans failed to locate it.
• Lynn told Tony he knew the Tesseract’s general area and advised him not to change events, and Tony agreed.
• Tony teased Lynn for staring at Natasha, and Lynn sheepishly promised to watch himself.
• Tony told Lynn that Loki was in Stuttgart and Fury wanted them to go; Lynn declined and returned to his residence.

Tony joined the mission to capture Loki in Stuttgart, but Loki surrendered before Thor seized him from the Quinjet. Tony and Thor fought over Loki until Captain Rogers stopped them, and they agreed to return together with Loki while leaving his eventual trial to Asgard.

• Tony flew to Stuttgart, struck Loki with a repulsor blast, and watched him surrender to Captain Rogers and Natasha.
• As the Quinjet traveled back toward the Helicarrier, Thor tore open its rear hatch and carried Loki away, prompting Tony and Rogers to follow.
• Tony attacked Thor while he questioned Loki about the Tesseract, then fought him after Thor insisted Loki would face Asgardian judgment.
• Thor and Tony exchanged blows until Rogers intervened with his shield and ordered them to stop.
• Thor agreed to return with Tony and Rogers, insisting Loki would ultimately stand trial in Asgard, and they escorted Loki back to the Quinjet.

After Loki was imprisoned aboard the Helicarrier, the team discussed his plan to bring an army to Earth and how iridium would stabilize a portal. Tony then confronted Fury over ignoring warnings about Tesseract research, leaving Fury facing the accusation in silence.

• Fury placed Loki in a glass cage that opened onto the clouds below, and Loki mocked Fury and the safeguards before Fury left.
• Banner said Lynn had helped him understand himself, while Thor explained that Loki intended to invade Earth with an army from beyond the known worlds.
• Banner connected Loki's kidnapping of Selvig to the creation of a second portal, and Natasha reminded Thor that Loki had killed eighty people.
• Tony identified iridium as the stabilizer Loki needed to bring an army through a larger portal.
• Tony accused Fury of ignoring Coulson's warning about Tesseract research and blamed the research for enabling Loki's arrival; Fury met Tony's gaze without responding.

Tony argued that Fury’s Tesseract research had created risks without preparing for what might follow, then Lynn arrived on the Helicarrier with an idea for making a safer copy of the Tesseract. Tony, Banner, and Ivan considered whether Lynn’s ability could break down, record, and replicate it.

• Tony told Fury that studying the Tesseract had exposed Earth to danger and warned that future unknown threats might be beyond their ability to handle.
• Tony called Lynn, who asked to be brought to the Helicarrier after hearing that Tony had confronted Fury.
• Lynn arrived in the MK2 armor and joined Tony, Banner, Ivan, and the others in the laboratory.
• Lynn privately asked Tony, Banner, and Ivan whether matter’s information could be used to replicate a Tesseract suited to his body with fewer side effects.
• Tony said the idea was theoretically feasible and that Lynn could try it.

Lynn copied the Mind Stone’s physical structure but discovered he could not reproduce its cosmic authority. When Hulk rampaged aboard the Helicarrier, Lynn rescued the injured Natasha and treated her in a lounge, where she left his offer to become his personal butler undecided.

• Lynn examined Loki’s Scepter and recorded the Mind Stone’s physical data, realizing its universal authority could not be copied.
• Lynn made a physical replica of the Mind Stone, then recognized that the lab’s escalating argument could trigger Hulk’s rampage.
• As Hulk tore through the Helicarrier, Lynn opened a portal to the pipe level and rescued the injured Natasha from his pursuit.
• Lynn brought Natasha to a lounge, where she treated her wound with supplies from an emergency kit.
• Natasha asked why Lynn had come for her, and he said he had anticipated the danger and wanted to talk with her.
• Natasha gave no answer to Lynn’s butler offer, but her professional wariness eased as the Helicarrier’s fighting subsided.

Lynn saved Coulson from being killed by Loki, though the sudden portal trip knocked Coulson unconscious. Loki released Thor’s falling cage and left the detention area, while Lynn carried Coulson to safety and waited for the others.

• Lynn tracked the Avengers and Loki through the Helicarrier and found Loki confronting Thor at the detention cage.
• Coulson approached Loki with a modified phase gun, but Lynn opened a portal beneath him and dropped him elsewhere in the corridor.
• Lynn checked Coulson and found him unconscious but alive, with only a swollen lump on the back of his head.
• Loki released Thor’s cage, sending it plunging toward the clouds, and left without being stopped by Lynn.
• Lynn carried Coulson to the lounge, checked his injuries, and waited for the others to return.

Lynn, Tony, and the others realized Loki had chosen Stark Tower as the stage for his attack, and the Chitauri invasion of New York began. As Tony deployed a swarm of unmanned armor suits, Lynn, Rogers, and Natasha arrived in Midtown to protect trapped civilians.

• Lynn deduced that Loki planned to stage his attack at Stark Tower, prompting Tony and Ivan to head there through a portal.
• Lynn asked JARVIS to activate the armor swarm plan, and Tony authorized the deployment of five unmanned Mark V suits.
• Loki opened a portal above Stark Tower, allowing the Chitauri Army to pour into Manhattan and attack the city.
• Tony sent the five Mark V suits to fight the invading forces as Lynn led Rogers and Natasha through a portal to Midtown.
• Lynn warned Rogers about civilians trapped on Third Avenue, and Rogers and Natasha rushed to stop the Chitauri soldiers threatening them.

Tony confronted Loki at Stark Tower, survived being thrown from the building when the Mark VII armor caught him, and learned from Selvig that Loki’s scepter could close the wormhole. The invasion continued as Tony called for help, with Thor and Banner still missing and Lynn hidden nearby.

• Tony confronted Loki without armor and warned him that humanity would take revenge if Loki failed to save the world.
• Loki’s scepter failed to control Tony, so Loki attacked him and threw him through the tower’s windows.
• The Mark VII armor caught Tony in midair, and he returned to the tower and knocked Loki down with a repulsor blast.
• Tony questioned Selvig, who revealed that Loki’s scepter could penetrate the Tesseract’s barrier and close the wormhole.
• Tony surveyed the battle, saw Rogers, Natasha, and Ivan protecting civilians while Chitauri poured through the wormhole, and spotted Lynn hiding nearby.
• Tony contacted Cap and demanded to know where Thor and Banner were as the defenders struggled to hold out.

Lynn used an imitation Mind Stone to amplify his rule-based powers, becoming pathologically obsessed with imposing order on the Chitauri invasion. He immobilized and erased the enemy craft within his range, giving the Avengers an opening to evacuate civilians while the wider battle continued.

• Rogers asked where Thor and Banner were as the Avengers struggled against the Chitauri, and Lynn said they were on their way.
• Lynn implanted the copied Mind Stone in his chest and activated his memory anchor, causing his personality and perception to shift into an obsessive, emotionless state.
• Lynn silently blocked a Chitauri fighter's attack and dismantled three fighters threatening Tony's armor.
• Lynn unleashed his magic circle and domain over Midtown Manhattan, rising into the sky with enormous wings of silver particles and three-colored light.
• Lynn immobilized Chitauri craft and soldiers, disabled weapons aimed at civilians, and ordered Rogers to lead an evacuation while Tony and Ivan covered other areas.
• Lynn disintegrated the immobilized craft within his range, and Rogers seized the opening to begin evacuating civilians.

Lynn fought the fourth wave of Chitauri while his memory-erasing magic array and other powers drove him into a destructive obsession with eliminating every enemy. Tony recognized that Lynn was losing control and ordered Natasha to shut down the wormhole while he flew to intervene.

• Lynn attacked the new Chitauri formations, dismantling their ships and disabling gliders as they threatened civilians.
• As more enemies poured through the wormhole, Lynn’s fighting grew increasingly brutal, and the magic markings spread across his body.
• Tony watched Lynn’s behavior change and realized that the combined strain of his powers and memory loss had overwhelmed his usual temperament.
• Tony ordered Natasha to use Loki’s Scepter to shut down the wormhole and told the others to cover her.
• Tony flew toward Lynn and warned Rogers that Lynn might soon dismantle him too.

The World Security Council ordered a nuclear strike on Manhattan, and Tony raced to intercept the missile while the Avengers fought to protect the city. Thor and Hulk joined the battle as Lynn’s memory-erasing magic array drove him into increasingly brutal attacks, and the chapter ended with Natasha heading upward and Thor and Hulk charging toward Stark Tower.

• Fury told Tony that the World Security Council had launched a nuclear missile at Manhattan and that it would arrive in three minutes; Tony relayed the warning to the team and raced to intercept it.
• Thor arrived, destroyed a Leviathan with lightning, and warned Rogers that the enemy forces were overwhelming them.
• Hulk steadied a collapsing skyscraper so Rogers could evacuate trapped civilians, then joined the fight against the Leviathans.
• Lynn’s magic array continued erasing his recent memories, leaving him agitated and causing him to attack enemy fighters and disable a Leviathan with increasing brutality.
• Tony warned that the missile was nearing and that he might not be able to divert it; Natasha reported that she had secured an aircraft and was heading up.
• Thor and Hulk charged toward the top of Stark Tower as the countdown continued.

Lynn continued fighting the Chitauri while the magic array and Mind Stone left him increasingly unable to think or answer the team. The Avengers let him hold the invaders off as Tony arrived with the nuclear missile and flew toward the wormhole.

• Hulk seized Loki and repeatedly smashed him into the marble floor while Natasha retrieved the scepter and prepared to close the wormhole.
• Tony told Natasha not to close the wormhole because he needed to send the nuclear missile through it, and Rogers reported that Lynn was holding off most of the Chitauri.
• Lynn dismantled Leviathans and aircraft while struggling to preserve buildings, and Rogers told the team that Lynn still seemed to remember that limit.
• Tony argued that they should wait until he arrived with the missile, and the team agreed to let Lynn keep fighting for a little longer.
• Tony flew over Manhattan carrying the nuclear missile and charged toward the wormhole.

Tony sent the nuclear missile through the wormhole, destroying the Chitauri fleet and ending the invasion, while Natasha closed the portal. Lynn collapsed after stopping his magic, but Tony caught him, and he woke after the battle with his strength restored.

• Tony sent the nuclear missile through the wormhole, and its explosion destroyed the Chitauri mothership and disabled the invading army.
• Natasha used the scepter to shut down the Tesseract and collapse the wormhole.
• JARVIS warned Lynn to stop supplying mana, and Lynn's powers faded as he fell from the sky.
• Tony caught Lynn and laid him down, while JARVIS confirmed that he was safely asleep from exhaustion.
• The Avengers regrouped as Hulk roared, startling Lynn awake.
• Lynn saw Tony beside him and asked whether Tony had given him mouth-to-mouth.

After Lynn collapsed from overexertion, Natasha took him home and stayed to care for him. Tony and Ivan investigated his behavior during the battle and concluded that the chest gem had temporarily overwhelmed his information-filtering mechanism, leaving him still fundamentally himself.

• Tony asked who would carry Lynn back, but Rogers went to check on the evacuation and Thor went to find Loki.
• Natasha carried Lynn to his residence in Stark Tower, checked his condition, and stayed after finding him weak but stable.
• Natasha contacted Fury, ordered clothes and medical supplies, changed her bandage, and rested beside Lynn.
• Tony asked JARVIS to compare Lynn’s previous test data with his battle data while Ivan watched.
• JARVIS reported that the chest gem had raised Lynn’s information-processing efficiency to five times its earlier level while his nerve conduction lagged, causing his temporary personality and behavior changes.
• Tony and Ivan concluded that Lynn was still himself, and Tony joked that he hoped Lynn would not try to take him apart next time.

Lynn woke after exhausting himself in the battle and found Natasha making breakfast, then asked Tony what happened while he was unconscious. Tony described Lynn’s powerful but careful attack on the Chitauri and reminded him that he had publicly asked whether Tony gave him mouth-to-mouth.

• Lynn woke with the replica Mind Stone still embedded in his chest and found Natasha cooking breakfast in his home.
• Lynn hugged Natasha from behind, and she swiftly pinned him against the kitchen island before letting him go.
• Natasha told Lynn she had rescued him from a rooftop, served him breakfast, and left without answering when he asked when she would officially move in.
• Lynn went to the laboratory and asked Tony what had happened after he blacked out during the battle.
• Tony said Lynn had grown giant particle wings, destroyed Chitauri aircraft across Midtown, and carefully prevented damage to buildings, though Lynn could not remember doing it.
• Tony reminded Lynn that he had asked whether Tony gave him mouth-to-mouth in front of the whole team, including Hulk.

Lynn learned that after blacking out in battle, he had fought like a ruthless war machine while carefully protecting civilians and buildings. Mortified by the footage, he decided to move to Mars and left the laboratory to sleep.

• Lynn asked Tony whether he had given him mouth-to-mouth after he passed out, and Tony joked that he would only do that for a blonde beauty.
• Tony showed Lynn the battlefield footage, revealing him tearing apart Chitauri forces with silver wings and dark gold markings.
• Tony explained that the gem in Lynn's chest and the Ancient One's magic array had amplified his processing while stripping away distractions and emotions.
• Lynn, embarrassed by his vacant stare and crazed fighting, said he was going to live on Mars and headed for the elevator.
• Tony chuckled as Ivan and the white parrot silently watched Lynn leave.

After recovering from the Battle of New York, Lynn learned that Natasha would be stationed at Stark Tower to monitor him and invited her to dinner. He borrowed a car from Tony, who also discussed plans for new armor prototypes, and left to meet Natasha.

• Natasha told Lynn that Fury had assigned her to live at Stark Tower and monitor his condition after his loss of control during the battle.
• Lynn welcomed Natasha to the private floor, showed her the guest room beside his, and invited her out for a meal.
• Lynn visited Tony and Ivan in the workshop and asked Tony to lend him a car for his dinner with Natasha.
• Tony said he and Ivan planned to develop several types of armor and invited Lynn to help test prototypes at the seaside mansion’s underground lab.
• Tony gave Lynn a car key, and Lynn warned him not to reveal the locations of his home or private bases before leaving to meet Natasha.

Lynn took Natasha out for Chinese food and a day at an amusement park, giving her a chance to see him outside the battlefield. They returned to Stark Tower as companions, though Natasha remained responsible for monitoring his recovery.

• Lynn drove Natasha to a Chinese restaurant, where they ate and talked about New York and his recovery.
• Lynn and Natasha spent the day at an amusement park, riding attractions, sharing snacks, and winning a stuffed toy.
• Natasha gradually stopped treating Lynn only as a surveillance subject and came to regard him as an equal.
• Lynn and Natasha had dinner, returned to Stark Tower, and said goodnight after Natasha reminded him to focus on his recovery.

After more than half a month of relaxing with Natasha, Lynn agreed to visit Tony and Ivan’s seaside villa to watch them field-test their new armor. He and Natasha traveled there through Lynn’s portal.

• Lynn grew restless after spending weeks sightseeing and neglecting his training, and decided he should visit the Ancient One and his old friends.
• Tony called Lynn and said he and Ivan had designed more than thirty armor models, completed eight, and were beginning field tests.
• Lynn asked whether Natasha could attend, and Tony confirmed he had cleared it with Fury and had no objection to her seeing the suits.
• Lynn told Natasha about the tests, and she agreed to go with him.
• Lynn opened a portal to Tony’s seaside villa, and he and Natasha stepped through.

Lynn and Natasha arrived at Tony’s seaside villa, where Tony and Ivan presented nine new Iron Man suits, Mark VIII through Mark XVI, each designed for a different combat role. Tony outlined a comprehensive testing plan, and Lynn invited them to begin.

• Lynn and Natasha stepped through a portal into Tony’s villa, where Tony and Ivan were waiting beside the completed armor lineup.
• Tony revealed nine suits, Mark VIII through Mark XVI, and described each model’s specialized features and role.
• Lynn praised Tony and Ivan for building the full lineup in just over two weeks.
• Lynn asked how they would test the suits, and Tony explained the performance, specialized-feature, and mixed-formation combat trials.
• Lynn gave Tony the floor to begin the tests.

After Lynn told Tony that Stark weapons had orphaned Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, Tony confronted his responsibility and resolved to apologize in person. At Kamar-Taj, he admitted his failures to the twins without asking them to forgive him.

• Lynn canceled his portal to Kamar-Taj and told Tony how a Stark bomb had killed Wanda and Pietro’s parents and trapped them in ruins for two days.
• Tony recognized that shutting down Stark’s weapons divisions had not erased the harm his weapons had caused, and he resolved to face the twins and apologize.
• Tony said he would gather proof of Obadiah’s illicit arms sales, while Ivan offered to help check the records.
• Lynn and Natasha left for Kamar-Taj, where Lynn explained the situation to Wanda and Pietro.
• Tony arrived at Kamar-Taj and apologized to the twins, accepting responsibility for creating and failing to control the weapons that destroyed their childhood.

Tony apologized to Wanda and Pietro at Kamar-Taj for the tragedy caused by Stark weapons, while Lynn urged the siblings to free themselves from hatred without forgiving Tony. Wanda and Pietro chose to stop tormenting themselves, and Tony promised to spend his life making amends before Lynn left them to talk.

• Tony presented Wanda and Pietro with evidence of Obadiah's illegal arms sales and apologized for the harm caused by Stark weapons.
• Pietro confronted Tony, saying the apology could not undo their parents' deaths or the years of suffering he and Wanda endured.
• Lynn acknowledged the siblings' right to hate Tony but urged them not to let hatred imprison their futures.
• Wanda said she and Pietro would not forgive Tony or accept compensation, but wanted to stop tormenting themselves and make Tony remember the tragedy he caused.
• Pietro agreed, and Tony promised to face his mistakes and use Stark Industries' resources to help those harmed by its weapons.
• Lynn left the courtyard to visit the Ancient One, leaving Tony, Wanda, and Pietro together.

Lynn asked the Ancient One for help copying the Time Stone to prevent the personality changes caused by overloading his mind with the imitation Mind Stone. She allowed him to study it under strict conditions, leaving Lynn with a chance to pursue his plan inside Kamar-Taj.

• Lynn visited the Ancient One and showed her the imitation Mind Stone he had copied.
• The Ancient One examined the gem and confirmed that it lacked the Mind Stone’s power to control minds, though it could create a mental barrier and accelerate thought.
• Lynn explained that using the imitation and a magic array during the New York invasion had overloaded his neural transmission and caused abnormal changes in his temperament.
• Lynn said he wanted to copy the Soul Stone or Time Stone to prevent future overloads, but ruled out seeking the Soul Stone because its price was too high.
• The Ancient One agreed to let Lynn observe and copy the Time Stone in the room, forbidding him from taking it out or meddling with time and requiring him to stop if his energy or processing became unstable.